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From: news@frksyv.UUCP (Frank Korzeniewski)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Introduction to REC.HUMOR.FUNNY -- Monthly Posting
Keywords: Copyright, Plagerism
Message-ID: <381@frksyv.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 09:44:18 GMT
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In article <19979@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> rob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) writes:
>In article <488@utoday.UUCP> greenber@.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
>>  [ defense of Brad Templeton ]
>Ross,
>
>There are alot of people involved in the running of usenet, all of
>them do it for free, the people that write the software, the site
>admins, moderators, map coordinators, and posters.  Brad may be
>putting alot of time into r.h.f, but so are alot of other people.
>they are going it on a volunteer basis, just as Brad volunteered to be
>moderator of r.h.f.
>
>Usenet is pretty much non-commercial, that's the beauty of it and one
>of the reasons alot of companies and networks subsidize the transport
>of it.  Were Usent to become a "commercial network", many sites/networks
>would probably consider dropping it.
>
>I suspect that no one would object to a copyright that prohibited
>making money off of r.h.f (a la GNU) and protected Brad from
>'retribution'.  What people are objecting to is the possibility that
>Brad may use a medium (Usenet) that THEY are providing (via connect /
>disk costs) to make money.  

There just so happens to be an infinite number of things that are possible
in our collective reality. Now, if we worried about all of them, we really
wouldn't be able to get any productive work done.

It may be fine for some people to object to a possibility, but I object to
the actual occurence of the misstatement of facts, and the misinterpretation
of Brad's postings that I have seen regarding the whole r.h.f affair.

The ONLY thing that Brad has DONE, is to assert a collective copyright on
r.h.f. (His saying he *CONTROLS* r.h.f is simply a dirivative of this)
Those that disagree should sue him if they feel that stronlgy about it,
and stop this silly whining. Attempts to remove Brad are nothing more
than obvious acts of revenge for his statement. This should not be
tolerated. (Thank you Karl Denninger for the inspiration for this
line of argument.)

So folks, how about lightening up on this.

Frank


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